A Catalog of Blue Stragglersin Open Clusters
J. A. AhumadaObservatorio Astronómico
Universidad Nacional de CórdobaArgentina
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BSs in open clusterssince the Fifties
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Some antecedents (before 1992) Partial lists of BSs: Strom & Strom (1970),
Hintzen et al. (1974), Hrivnak (1977), Mermilliod (1982), Peterson et al. (1984), Stryker & Hrivnak (1984), Twarog & Tyson (1985), Abt (1985), Eggen & Iben (1988, 1989), Mathys (1991), Pritchet & Glaspey (1991), Milone (1991), etc.
A few statistical studies: Wheeler (1979), Mermilliod (1982), Morales & Sabau (1987), etc.
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The idea McCrea (1964)
turnoff
color
ZAMS
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Heroic times: the selection
Clusters from Lyngå’s (1987) catalog Search through A&A Abstracts UBV photometry preferred Accuracy and completeness of the
photometry Quality of the color-magnitude and color-color
diagrams
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An attempt to classify the BSsinto three categories using:
Membership probabilities: proper motions, radial velocities, photometric criteria, central position in the cluster
Spectra consistent with those of main-sequence or slightly-evolved stars
Mentions by other authors Position on certain parts of the area
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The first catalog (1995) 959 stars in 390 open clusters of all ages Percentage of clusters with at least 1 BS
candidate: 57.7% Percentage of BS classified as 1: 16.8%
(161) Two tables, notes, and references
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Some results
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On the problem of the limits
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Ten years passed by…
New clusters Better photometry More membership studies More spectroscopic information
Hawarden (1976) Kassis et al. (1997)
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Melotte 66
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Here we go again: the selection
Search through the WEBDA for cluster and
star data UBVI photometry preferred Accuracy and completeness of the
photometry Quality of the C-M and color-color diagrams BS searched again in all clusters for
homogeneity of procedure
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The procedure: now, isochrones
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More differences
Superior limit of the BS area not fixed: identification of massive stragglers
Stellar models used (i.e., Padova isochrones) are involved in the selection
Classification of the BS: now two classes
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The second catalog(2007) 1887 stars in 427 open clusters of all ages Percentage of clusters with at least 1 BS
candidate: 46.6% Percentage of BS classified as 1: 10.6%
(200) Two tables, notes, and references, like the
first catalog
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Some results
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On the problem of membership (1)
Berkeley 66, log(age) ~ 9.7(Carraro et al. 2008)
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On the problem of membership (2)
(Majaess et al., in preparation)
NGC 4463, log(age) ~ 7.85
HD 108719
BN1 IIn
background star